Binding

In this exchange of letters, Nayantara Sahgal and Mangat Rai, two very public figures, break their self-imposed silence for the first time.

The letters speak of a growing and passionate involvement of the authors' joy andpain at discovering an intellectual companionship while at the same timbering forced to face the realities of their own lives and positions. They reflect on the dilemmas and compulsions that bind men and women into particular relationship.

These extracts from a correspondence give the reader an insight into the life and thoughts of one of India's successful writers and one of the most distinguished civil servants of his generation.